Charlotte Thitz

Anna Charlotte Thitz (11 December, 1799, Loviisa - 22 March, 1889, Helsinki), was a Finnish educator. She was active as a governess and the leader of a girls school. She is considered as in important representative of the contemporary development of female education in Finland.[1]

She was the daughter of the miniature painter Anders Gustaf Thitz from Germany. She managed a girls school in Loviisa from 1826 until 1841, after which she worked as a private teacher, a governess and gave private lessons in piano playing to upper class families in Vaasa and Heinola until 1870.